[bookport] Re: More braille suggestions
- From: "James Jolley" <james.jolley1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:13:00 +0100
Hi Walt,
The only reason why I figured that it would be good to set the time and date
via braille is purely for quickness. It would save all that mesing down
arrowing until you reach the number you wanted.
Best
-James-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 11:57 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: More braille suggestions
> No, I think that the current method of setting the time and date are
> adequate. Frankly, I don't even want to see the ability to enter memos in
> braille (as somebody mentioned here a week or so ago) because if I want a
> notetaker, that's what I'll buy and carry. Let's keep this *primarily and
> exclusively* a reading system and concentrate on the reading functions and
> not go hanging every bell and whistle on it that we can think of. The
> reason
> I think this is such a phenomenal device is that it's got a focused
> concept
> and design and those who're doing the updating have also remained focused
> on
> making it the best reading tool available to us. I don't want to see that
> focus begin to fuzz out into making this any kind of multi-function
> device.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Jolley" <james.jolley1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 6:41 PM
> Subject: [bookport] More braille suggestions
>
>
> Hi Folks,
> Now that I finally figured out the braille input side of this, what do you
> think of making braille input more effective? First, what about the
> option
> of entering braille for the time/date, say T chord to set time and date.
> First, prompt the user for the time in hour, minute, Am or PM, then hit
> braille enter, then of course set the date in mm/dd/yy or for us UK users
> dd/mm/yy.
>
> That brings up another idea. What about the ability to parse dates so
> that
> they speak in brittish or american formats. so, when key 2 is pressed for
> one beap, we could have it say 22nd of october, 2004 for UK and october
> 22nd, 2004 for the american markets.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Oh and another idea. What about the option of setting a reminder, you
> know,
> play a memo, or play such an mp3 at a specified time/date?
>
> Best
>
> -James-
>
>
>
>
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